Redis is an in-memory key-value data store that provides a small number of primitives suitable to the task of building monitoring systems. As a lot of us are hacking in this space I thought I’d write a blog post summarizing where I’ve been using it in a little Sensu like monitoring system I have been Read More
I’ve blogged a lot about a new kind of monitoring but what I didn’t point out is that I do actually like the existing toolset. I quite like Nagios. It’s configuration is horrible yes, the web ui is near useless, it throws away useful information like perfdata. It is though a good poller, it’s solid, Read More
A while ago Techcrunch profiled a company called Nodeable who closed 2 mil funding. They bill themselves as a social network for servers and have some cartoon and a beta invite box on their site but no actual usable information. I signed up but never heard from them. So I’ve not seen what they’re doing Read More
I’ve wanted to be notified the moment Puppet changes a resource for ages, I’ve often been told this cannot be done without monkey patching nasty Puppet internals. Those following me on Twitter have no doubt noticed my tweets complaining about the complexities in getting this done. I’ve now managed to get this done so am Read More
This is a follow-up post to other posts I’ve done regarding a new breed of monitoring that I hope to create. I’ve had some time to think about configuration of monitoring. This is a big pain point in all monitoring systems. Many require you configure all your resources, dependencies etc often in text files. Others Read More
